2026-10-26 17:00 UTC
They’re useful—especially to avoid over-using other punctuation such as semicolons; I also use them to avoid back-to-back sentences with exclamation marks!
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@Psythik@lemmy.world 2026-10-26 18:37
I use them when connecting a thought in between another thought—for example, what I just did right now—and then returning back to the original thought. I use a semi-colon when connecting two related thoughts tougher; LLMs tend to only use one em-dash, so I’m hoping that by using two of them instead—and a semi-colon instead whenever an LLM would use an em-dash—there will be no confusion as to whether or not I’m human.
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@OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2026-10-26 20:10
Fuck, dashes, embrace, Hegel.
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-10-26 22:31
They’re useful. Especially to avoid over-using other punctuation such as semicolons. I also use them to avoid back-to-back sentences with exclamation marks! There you go. It’s easier, clearer, and less pretentious.